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WSA201109

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Featuring Guests

1. Pat Sabo, Chair, Sonoma County Democratic Party

2. Susan Lamont, Activist on Police Accountability and Transparency

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Commentary by Host Elaine B. Holtz

on the 7 years of steady community effort to empower IOLERO with more effective oversight of the Sheriff's Office with the passage of Sonoma County Measure P.

This is followed by a song and then our

Discussions with Featured Guests:

1.  Pat Sabo shares the insights she has gathered from this election held last week. The high turnout of 66% for the country and of 75% for Sonoma County was a good sign for democracy.  By Saturday morning AP and other major news media called the presidential race for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris broke the glass ceiling into the Vice-Presidency of the Whitehouse, and she wore white in her acceptance speech and gave credit to the shoulders she stood on.  Pat noted the winners of the races in the county and the number of new faces. District Elections were a first in Rohnert Park for electing its city council, as was the vote in the recently annexed Roseland area for the District 1 election of local businessman Eddy Alvarez.

About our Guest:   Pat Sabo is a resident of Sonoma County since 1973. She received her teaching credential from SSU in 1976 and taught mathematics in the Healdsburg Unified School District.. She served as President and Bargaining Chair for her local teacher’s union and was active at the regional and statewide level with CTA, working on major statewide campaigns and propositions. After her retirement she helped a former student run for the CA State Senate. after his election she worked part time as a district representative in his Santa Rosa office and she retired in 2019. She began working with the Democratic Central Committee in 2002 took a few years off after returning in 2014 she became the party chair in February 2019

Guest Links:  Sonoma County Democratic Party  https://sonomademocrats.org/about-us/

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2. Susan Lamont reads us a list of activist groups comprising many individuals in the community that she honors for contributed volunteer time and resources to clamor with a multiplicity of tactics for effective oversight of the Sheriff's Office in Sonoma County.  Susan also mentions the names of those we lost in this fight for justice.

About our Guest:  Susan Lamont is a longtime peace and social justice activist, who is currently affiliated with Sonoma County's Green Party, Police Brutality Coalition and Veterans for Peace. She is also a writer, poet and photographer. I have to say she is an amazing writer and photographer. Susan, I am happy to say, is a regular guest and was my first guest on the Women's Spaces Television Show in 2004.

Guest Links: Recognition of the Supporters of Police Oversight and Eventual Passage of Measure P – The Evelyn Cheatham Effective IOLERO Ordinance -  Link to download pdf.

Police Brutality Coalition of Sonoma County https://www.facebook.com/PBCSonomaCounty/

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Herstory

Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

Herstory Events:

November 8, 1984 – Dr. Anna L. Fisher, a physician on the shuttle Discovery, becomes the first American mother and third American woman to fly into space,

November 11, 1993 – The Vietnam Women’s Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after being conceived by former army combat nurse Diane Carlson Evans and sculpted by Glenna Goodacre to honor the 265,000 women who voluntarily served during the Vietnam era.

Herstory Birthdays:

November 8, 1897 (1980) – Dorothy Day, social reformer, suffragist and peace activist, co-founded the Catholic Worker movement and edited “The Catholic Worker” newspaper.

November 8, 1920 (1998) – Esther Rolle, one of founding members of the renowned Negro Ensemble Company in 1968, created the role of Florida Evans in “Maude,” starred in “Good Times” 1970-79.

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Announcements

Check links in case of postponement, cancellations, or restrictions due to pandemic precautions:

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 Beginning October 8, 2020, 50,000 Mice, the Selena Solomons Story, online theatre presentation as part of the exhibit Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum, the link will be posted October 8th at https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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Sonoma County 2020 Women’s Suffrage Project’s
19th Amendment Centennial Series
has occured with live online presentations from
Tuesday, August 18 to August 26, 2020.
Visit the Project's YouTube channel main site for the 19th Centennial Series recordings of online presentationss at www.youtube.com/channel/UCqynwJCqhLMtPtjdDdsdQdQ

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The Women's Vote Centennial Initiative is a collaboration of women-centered institutions, organizations, and scholars from across the US, works to ensure that this anniversary, and the 72-year fight to achieve it, are commemorated and celebrated throughout the United States.  www.2020centennial.org/.

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August 26 - November 8, 2020, Petaluma’s Participation in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Petaluma Library and Historical Museum The Petaluma Museum Association’s suffrage exhibit has been rescheduled. For details visit

https://www.petalumamuseum.com/petalumas-participation-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement/

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January 25, 2020 through (extended!) January 24, 2021,  From Suffrage to #MeToo at Museum of Sonoma County.  Please note: Fee is required for entry to museum. For more information, also for Covid precautions taken at museum, visit https://museumsc.org/suffrage-metoo/

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League of Women Voters of Sonoma County has scheduled candidate debates and ballot measure discussions. See their webpage listing the events at https://www.facebook.com/lwvsonomacounty/ and at http://lwvsonoma.org/

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Sonoma County Women's Suffrage Project  https://socowomen2020.org/
with Calendar of related Events at https://socowomen2020.org/calendar

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Music Selections:

The Opening and Closing Theme song is with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin:

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For music purchasing opportunity: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show